Bonnie in the Machine - Softcover

Lether, Madam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1919251375 ISBN 13: 9781919251370

Verlag: The Library of Shadows, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Bonnie in the Machine is a spare, unsentimental novella about warmth, hunger, and the uneasy truce between an animal and an engine. One winter, a rat finds shelter under a bonnet: white curls of glove-lining, shredded receipts, the soft insistence of a nest. Heat hums through metal; peppermint burns the air; traps appear and vanish. Streets resolve into runs and refuges - hedges, markets, docks - mapped by whisker and scent. Bonnie learns the city by its vents and vibrations, by what feeds and what hunts, by the line between shelter and hazard that shifts with the weather.

Told in clear, steady prose, this is a realist chronicle of animal intelligence and survival, attentive to the costs. Like the hard truths in Watership Down, it treats a creature’s life with respect for its logic and its risks. The result is a quietly devastating portrait of a winter lived at ground level, where warmth is a machine and every choice has teeth.

For readers of grounded, intimate fiction, Bonnie in the Machine offers a single-sitting read that lingers like winter breath on glass.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Library of Shadows
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1919251375
• ISBN 13: 9781919251370
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 97
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland